The Latest Installment in My Financial Advertising Campaign

It’s been awhile since I’ve produced a new ad, and I’ve noticed that I’m getting to that place where I look right past the old ones, no matter how prominently I display them. This tag line comes from Deuteronomy 30:19, and was brought to my attention by an amazing book on healing that I stumbled across in my church’s library. I may well review it. It’s not directly related to bipolar disorder, but it does give solid advice about how to use every resource at your disposal to battle chronic illness.

Revolt and Resignation

In his collection of essays On Aging, Holocaust survivor Jean Amery said that one must meet the phenomenon of aging -- inevitable yet terrifying -- with both revolt and resignation. So it is with mental illness. To deny that I will always be manic-depressive would be true madness; at the same time, I must revolt against my condition, rejecting the idea that it defines and limits me.